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In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with
useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that
the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined
that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu
hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: "
Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick
of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we
greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the
OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new
libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that
have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a
home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one
(Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best
approach to create a strong platform following a strict release
cadence."

On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to
create()..."

The thing that I totally hate is trying to figure out what is a joke and what isn't. I am not educated enough on this particular topic to know obviously if it is a joke or not. Should I just automatically assume that there will be NO news on this site today, or is it possible that some real news might actually slip through?

Its hard to believe that Slashdot editing standards have sunk so deep that they can't even write a decent troll summary in English for their April Fool's Day stories. Logged in to Slashdot after two weeks, maybe next time it will be three more weeks before i see Slashdot again.

Personally, I have enjoyed April 1 on/. for many years. Sometimes the jokes hit the mark, sometimes not so much. The best ones have enough grains of truth to seem plausible and there are always a few posters who take the bait. Lighten up a bit. If you don't appreciate the humor, skip this site on 4/1. Your 'site with credibility' will be restored on 4/2.

I had a hard time finding the entertainment value in this until somebody mentioned Bill Cosby in another post somewhere. Now all I can hear is "Va uvf glcvpny snfuvba Jello Puddin Paaps!" It has made today fairly more tolerable.

Absolutely. The point of a news portal such as Slashdot is that it makes it easier to find news. There should be a switch on the front page to turn off the encoder for all summaries, rather than having to go in to a summary and click the link each time.

If you click on the link, you will find out that this isn't just a made-up Slashdot story; it was Lennart's joke. He said they are doing a replacement libc now, they plan to make systemd into an email client (a clear reference to Zawinski's Law), and they figure they will add an OS kernel someday, a gentle poke at GNU/HURD (it was right there in that post).

I'm not the biggest fan of April Fools humor, but at least in this case it was someone poking fun partially at himself.

Does adding a nasty, flamebait summary make the joke better?

In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu hogging email client

Really? Really, Unknown Lamer? Did you actually think this vitriol is funny?

Why is it vitriol? This guy's software is *shit*; pure, unadulterated shit. The only thing more fucked up than the shit he releases is that it's getting picked up by some distros. And for what? What problem does systemd solve? Ooh, can we boot faster? Who fucking cares? Who the hell turns off a computer in this day and age? It's a pure ripoff of Apple's (shitty) launchd. This stuff is replacing decades-proven systems, overcomplicating things, and for what? Either for the sake of change, or to mimic Apple.

And another thing! I knew this tool was behind sytemd and Pulse audio, but I just learned he is resposible for Avahi as well. Priceless! And that he works for Red Hat: that's just terrifying, and depressing as well. I'm starting to see why people despise Red Hat. Why RH, why?

AFAIK, the reason for ArchLinux atleast adapting systemd is that it will eventually be the standard init for most Linux distros, such that each distro will have to spend less time maintaining and updating something which the end user cares little about.

And there aren't really that many gripes with systemd. I have found that it overrides some power management settings on my laptop, but that's somewhat expected, and I quickly updated the settings to my liking. systemd also makes a more noisy initialization

...in case anyone actually sees some of this, knock it off or go fuck yourselves. It's not amusing. Lots of us are going to log in from work and apparently that doesn't work anyway. It's not a joke if no one is laughing.